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WAR  DEPARTMENT, 

May  8th,  1861, 

The  following  Regulations  for  the  Subsistence 
Department  of  the  Army  of  the  Confederate  States 
having  been  approved  by  the  President,  he  commands 
that  they  be  published  for  the  government  of  all  con- 
cerned, and  that  they  be  strictly  observed.  Nothing 
contrary  to  the  tenor  of  these  present  Regulations  will 
be  enjoined  or  allowed  in  any  part  of  the  forces  of  the 
Confederate  States,  by  any  commander  whatsoever. 

L.  P.  WALKER, 

Secretary  of  War. 


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REGULATIONS 


FOR  THE 


SUBSISTENCE  DEPAETMENT 


OP  THE 


CONFEDERATE  STATES. 


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RICHMOND : 

RITCHIE   it  DUNNAVANT,   PRIKTUIS. 

1862. 


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9  |.  2.  (,  I  -5  a. 

REGULATIONS 


FOR  THE 


SUBSISTENCE  DEPARTMENT. 


13.  Officers  of  the  Quartermaster's  or  Subsistence  Department,  though 
eligible  to  command  according  to  the  rank  they  hold  in  the  army  of  the 
Confederate  States,  not  subjt?ct  to  the  orders  of  a  junior  officer,  shall  not 
assume  the  command  of  troops  unless  put  on  duty  under  orders  -which 
specially  so  direct  by  authority  of  the  President. 

34.  The  senior  Lieutenant  present,  holding  the  appointment  of  Assis- 
tant Commissary  of  Subsistence,  is  entitled  to  perform  the  duties. 

892.  The  chiefs  of  disbursing  departments  who  submit  requisitions  for 
money  to  be  remitted  to  disbursing  officers,  shall  take  care  that  no  more 
money  than  actually  needed  is  in  the  hands  of  any  officer, 

938.  Chiefs  of  the  disbursing  departments  shall,  under  the  direction  of 
the  Secretary  of  War,  designate,  as  far  as  practicable,  the  places  where 
the  principal  contracts  and  purchases  shall  be  made  and  supplies  procured 
for  distribution. 

SUPPLIES. 

1097.  Subsistence  stores  for  the  army,  imless  in  particular  and  urgent 
cases  the  Secretary  of  War  shall  otherwise  direct,  shall  be  procured  by 
contract,  to  be  made  by  the  Commissary-General  on  public  notice,  to  be 
delivered  on  inspection  in  the  bulk,  and  at  such  places  as  shall  be  stipu 
lated;  the  inspector  to  give  duplicate  inspection  certificates  (see  Form 
No.  15),  and  to  be  a  legal  inspector  where  there  is  such  officer. 

1098.  Purchases,  to  supply  such  corps  and  posts  as  by  reason  of  their 
position,  the  climate,  or  for  other  sufficient  q^use  the  Secretary  of  "War 
may  specially  direct  to  be  supplied  in  that  way,  will  be  made  in  open 
market,  on  public  notice,  from  the  lowest  bidder  who  produces  the  proper 
article. 


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6  SUBSISTENCE   REGULATIONS. 

1099.  And  whenever  a  deficiency  of  subsistence  stores  makes  it  neces- 
sary to  buy  them,  the  commissary,  where  they  are  needed,  will  make  a  re- 
quisition for  that  purpose  on  the  proper  purchasing  commissary,  or  buy 
them  himself,  ot  good  quality  corresponding  with  the  contract. 

1100.  When  subsistence  is  received  under  contract,  the  commissary 
will  receipt  for  it  on  the  inspection  certificates  (see  Form  No.  15).  He 
will  deliver  one  of  these  to  tjje  contractor,  and  forward  the  other  to  the 
Commissary-General,  with  a  report  on  the  quality  of  the  provisions  and 
the  condition  of  the  packages. 

1101.  Whenever  subsistence  stores  are  purchased,  the  advertisements 
and  bids,  and  a  copy  of  the  bill  of  purchase,  with  a  statement  of  the 
cause  of  purchase,  will  be  forwarded  by  the  purchasing  officer  to  the  Com- 
missary-General. This  rule  does  not  apply  to  the  ordinary  purchase  of 
hospital  supplies.  Pork,  salt  beef  and  flour  must  be  inspected  before  pur- 
chase by  a  legal  inspector  where  there  is  such  officer.  Duplicate  certifi- 
cates of  inspection  (see  Form  No.  15)  will  be  taken  as  sub-vouchers  to 
the  vouchers  for  the  payment. 

1102.  Fresh  beef,  when  it  can  be  procured,  shall  be  furnished  as  often 
as  the  commanding  officer  may  order,  at  least  twice  a  week,  to  be  pro- 
cured by  the  commissary,  when  practicat>le,  by  contract.  (For  form  of 
contract  and  bond,  see  Forms  27  and  28.)  When  beef  is  taken  on  the 
hoof,  it  will  be  accounted  for  on  the  provision  return  by  the  number  of 
cattle  and  their  estimated  weight.  When  the  pasture  is  insufficient,  hay, 
corn,  and  other  forage  will  be  jjrocured  for  public  cattle. 

1103.  Good  and  sufficient  store-room  for  the  subsistence  stores  will  be 
procured  by  the  commissary  from  the  quartermaster.  Care  shall  be  taken 
to  keep  the  store-rooms  dry  and  ventilated.  Packages  shall  be  so  stored 
as  to  allow  circulation  of  air  among  and  beneath  them.  The  flour  should 
occasionally  be  rolled  out  into  the  air. 

1104.  Before  submitting  damaged  commissary  stores  to  boards  of 
survey,  the  commissary  shall  separate  and  re-pack  sound  parts. 

1105.  Wastage  on  issues,  or  from  evaporation  or  leakage,  will  be  as- 
certained quarterly,  or  when  it  can  be  most  conveniently ;  and  the  actual 
wastage  thus  found  will  be  charged  on  the  monthly  return.  Loss,  from 
whatever  cause,  exceeding  ordinary  waste,  must  be  accounted  for  by  the 
certificate  of  '<jw  -^i^cer  or  other  satisfactory  evidence.  Ordinary  Avaste 
on  issues  should  not  exceed,  say  10  per  cent,  on  pork,  bacou,  sugar,  vine- 
gar and  soap ;  and  5  per  cent,  on  hard  bread,  beans,  rice,  cofiee  and 
salt. 


SUBSISTENCE   REGULATIONS.  7 

1106.  No  wastage  is  admitted  on  issues  of  fresh  beef  furnished  the 
company  detachment  or  regiment,  directly  from  the  butcher.  But  in  beef 
on  the  hoof,  errors  in  estimated  weight,  and  losses  on  cattle  strayed  or 
stolen,  will  be  accounted  for  by  the  certificate  of  an  officer,  or  other  satis- 
factory evidence.  When  cattle  are  transferred,  they  should  be  appraised, 
and  loss  in  weight  reported  as  wastage  by  the  officer  deliveriog  them. 
Fair  wastage  in  transportation  of  stores  is  accounted  for  by  the  receiving 
officer. 

THE  RATION. 

1107.  The  ration  is  three-fourths  of  a  pound  of  pork  or  bacon,  or  one 
and  a  fourth  pounds  of  fresh  or  salt  beef;  eighteen  ounces  of  bread  or 
flour,  or  twelve  ounces  of  hard  bread,  or  one  and  a  fourth  pounds  of  corn 
meal;  and  at  the  rate,  to  one  hundred  rations,  of  eight  quarts  of  peas 
or  beans,  or,  in  lieu  thereof,  ten  pounds  of  rice;  six  pounds  coffee; 
twelve  pounds  sugar;  four  quarts  of  vinegar;  one  and  a  half  pounds  of 
tallow,  or  one  and  a  fourth  pounds  adamantine,  or  one  j)ound  sperm  can- 
dles ;  four  pounds  of  soap,  and  two  quarts  of  salt. 

1108.  The  annexed  table  shows  the  quantity  of  "each  part  of  the  ration 
in  any  number  of  rations  from  one  to  ten  thousand. 

3109.  On  a  campaign,  or  on  marches,  or  on  board  of  transports,  the 
ration  of  hard  bread  is  one  pounds 

ISSUES- 

1110.  Returns  for  issues  to  companies,  will,  when  practicable,  be  con- 
solidated for  the  post  or  regiment  (see  Form  14).  At  the  end  of  the 
month,  the  issuing  commissaiy  will  make  duplicate  abstracts  of  the 
issues,  which  the  commanding  officer  will  compare  with  the  original  re- 
turns, and  certify  (see  Form  2).  This  abstract  is  a  voucher  of  the  issue 
for  the  monthly  return. 

nil.  Issues  to  the  hospital  will  be  on  returns  by  the  medical  officer, 
for  such  provisions  only  as  are  actually  required  for  the  sick  and  the 
attendants.  The  cost  of  such  parts  of  the  ration  as  are  issued  will  be 
charged  to  the  hospital  at  contract  or  cost  prices,  and  the  hospital  will  be 
credited  by  the  whole  number  of  complete  rations  due  through  the  month 
at  contract  or  cost  prices  (see  Not«  7);  the  balance,  constituting  the 
Hospital  Fund,  or  any  portion  of  it,  may  be  expended  by  the  commissary, 
on  the  requisition  of  the  medical  officer,  in  the  purchase- of  any  article  for 
the  subsistence  or  comfort  of  the  sick,  not  authorized  to  be  otherwise 


8  SUBSISTENCE   REGULATIOXS. 

fumisbed  (see  Form  3).  At  large  depots  or  general  hospitals,  this  funci 
may  be  partly  expended  for  the  beneiit  of  dependent  posts  or  detach- 
ments, on  requisitions  approved  by  the  medical  director  or  senior  Surgeon 
of  the  district. 

11J2.  The  articles  pnrchnsed  for  th<^  hospital,  as  well  as  those  issued 
from  the  subsistence  store-house,  will  be  included  in  the  Surgeon's  certi- 
ficate of  issues  to  tlie  hospital,  and  borne  on  -the  monthly  return  of  pro- 
visions received  and  issued.  Vouchers  for  purchases  for  the  hospital 
must  either  be  certified  by  the  Surgeon  or  accompanied  by  his  requisition. 

1113.  Abstracts  of  the  issues  to  the  hospital  ■\vill  be  made  by  the  com- 
missary, certified  by  the  Surgeon,  and  countersigned  by  the  commanding- 
©flScer  (see  Form  3). 

1114.  In  order  that  the  authorized  women  of  companies  may  draw 
their  rations  while  temporarily  separated  from  their  companies,  the  oificer 
commanding  the  company  must  make  a  report  to  the  commanding  officer 
of  the  post  where  the  women  may  be  left,  designating  such  as  are  to  draw 
rations  as  attached  to  his  company.  Their  rations  are  not  commuted, 
and  they  can  only  draw  them  at  a  militaiy  post  or  station  where  there 
are  supplies. 

1115.  "UHien  provisions  can  be  spared  from  the  military  supplies,  com- 
manding officers  have  discretion  to  order  issues  to  Indians  visiting  mili- 
tary posts  on  the  frontiers,  or  in  their  respective  nations,  and  to  order 
sales  of  subsistence  to  Indian  agents  for  issues  to  Indians.  The  returns 
for  issues,  where  there  is  no  Indian  agent,  will  be  signed  by  the  com- 
manding officer.  The  sales  will  be  for  cash,  at  cost,  including  all  ex- 
penses ;  to  be  entered  on  the  monthly  return,  and  credited  on  the  quar- 
terly account  current. 

IIIG.  Issues  to  volunteers  and  militia ,^  to  sailors,  to  marines f  to  citizens 
employed  by  any  of  the  departments,  or  to  Indians,  will  he  entered  on 
separate  abstracts  to  the  monthly  return. 

1117.  An  extra  issue  of  fitleen  pounds  of  tallow  or  ten  of  sperm  can- 
dles, per  month,  may  be  made  to  the  ])rincii)al  guard  of  each  camp  and 
garrison,  on  the  order  of  the  commaudiug  officer.  Extra  issues  of  soap, 
candles  and  vinegar,  are  pcamitted  to  th»;  hospital  when  the  Surgeon  does 
not  avail  himself  of  the  commutation  of  the  hospital  rations,  or  when 
there  is  no  hospital  fund ;  salt  in  small  quantities  may  be  issued  for  pub- 
lic horses  and  cattle.  When*  the  officers  of  the  Medical  Department  find 
anti-scorbutics  necessary  for  the  health  of  the  troops,  the  commanding 
officer  may  order  issues  of  fresh  vegetables,  pickled  onions,  sour  krout. 


SUBSISTENCE   REGULATIONS.  9 

or  molasses,  with  an  extra  quantity  of  rice  and  vinegar.  (Potatoes  are 
usually  issued  at  the  rate  of  one  pound  per  ration,  and  onions  at  the  rate 
of  three  bushels  in  lieu  of  one  of  beans.)  Occasional  issues  (extra)  of 
molasses  are  made— two  quarts  to  one  hundred  rations— and  of  dried  ap- 
ples of  from  one  to  one  and  a  half  bushels  to  one  hundred  rations. 
Troops  at  sea  are  recommended  to  draw  rice  and  an  extra  issue  of  mO' 
lasses  in  lieu  of  beans.  When  anti-scorbutics  are  issued,  the  medical 
officer  Avill  certify  the  necessity,  and  the  circumstances  which  cause  it, 
upon  the  abstract  of  extra  issues  (see  Form  4). 

1118.  When  men  leave  their  company,  the  rations  they  have  drawn, 
and  left  with  it,  Avill  be  deducted  from  the  next  return  for  the  company ; 
a  like  rule  when  men  are  discharged  from  the  hospital  will  govern  the 
hospital  return. 

RECRUITING   SERVICE. 

1119.  AYhen  subsistence  cannot  be  issued  by  tlie  Commissariat  to  re- 
cruiting parties,  it  will  be  procured  by  the  officer  in  charge,  on  written 
contracts  for  complete  rations,  or  wholesome  board  and  lodging  (see 
Form  2G). 

1 120.  The  contractor  will  send,  monthly  or  quarterly,  as  he  may  choose, 
his  account  for  rations  issued,  to  the  Commissary-General  for  payment, 
vouched  by  the  abstract  of  issues  (Form  17)  certified  by  the  officer. 

1121.  When  convenience  and  economy  require  that  the  contract  shall 
be  for  board  and  lodging,  the  officer  in  charge  shall  estimate  the  cost  of 
the  ration,  for  which  the  contractor  shall  be  paid  as  before  directed,  and 
shall  pay  the  amount  due  to  lodging  from  the  recruiting  fund. 

1122.  At  temporary  rendezvous,  advertising  may  be  dispensed  with, 
and  a  contract  made  conditioned  to  be  terminated  at  the  pleasure  of  the 
officer  or  the  Commissary-General. 

1123.  The  recruiting  officer  will  be  required,  when  convenient,  to  re- 
ceive  and  disburse  the  funds  for  the  subsistence  of  his  party,  and  to  ren- 
der his  accounts  quarterly  to  the  Commissary-General. 

1124.  When  a  contract  can  not  be  made,  the  recruiting  officer  may  pay 
the  necessary  expenses  of  subsisting  and  boarding  his  parly. 

1125.  The  expenses  of  subsistence  at  branch  rendezvous,  and  all  ex- 
penses of  advertising  for  proposals,  will  be  paid  by  the  contractor  at  the 
principal  station,  and  included'in  his  accounts. 

1I2G.  Tssuf's  of  provisions  will  be  made  on  the  usual  provision  re- 
turns,  and  board  will  be  furnished  on  a  return  showing  the  number  of 
the  party,  the  days,  and  dates. 

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SUBSISTENCE  TO   OFFICERS. 

1327.  An  oflSccr  may  draw  subsistence  stores,  paying  cash  for  them  at 
contract  or  cost  prices,  \vithout  including  cost  of  transportation,  on  bis 
certificate  that  they  are  for  his  OAvn  use  and  the  use  of  his  family.  These 
certified  lists  the  commanding  officer  shall  compare  "vvith  the  monthly 
abstracts  of  sales,  -which  he  shall  countersign  (see  Form  5).  The  com- 
missary will  enter  the  sales  on  his  monthly  return,  and  credit  the  money 
in  his  quarterly  account  cunent. 

BACK  RATIONS. 

1128.  When  the  supplies  warrant  it,  back  rations  may  be  drawn,  if  tho 
full  rations  could  not  have  been  issued  at  the  time;  except  when  soldiers 
have  been  sufficiently  subsisted  in  lieu  of  the  ration.  The  return  for 
back  rations  shall  set  out  the  facts,  and  the  precise  time  when  rations 
were  not  issued,  or  the  troops  otherwise  sufficiently  subsisted,  which 
shall  appear  on  the  abstract  of  issues. 

COMMUTATION  OF  RATIONS. 

1129.  "When  a  soldier  is  detached  on  duty,  and  it  is  impracticable  to 
carry  his  subsistence  Avith  him,  it  Avill  be  commuted  at  seventy-five  cents 
a  day,  to  be  paid  by  the  commissary  Avhen  due,  or  in  advance,  on  the 
order  of  the  commanding  officer.  The  officer  detaching  the  soldier  will 
certify,  on  the  voucher,  that  it  is  impracticable  for  him  to  carry  his 
rations,  and  the  voucher  will  show  on  its  face  the  nature  and  extent  of 
the  duty  the  soldier  was  ordered  to  perform  (see  Form  18).  • 

1130.  The  expenses  of  a  soldier  placed  temporarily  in  a  private  hos- 
pital, on  the  advice  of  the  senior  iSurgeun  of  the  post  or  detachment, 
sanctioned  by  the  commanding  officer,  will  be  paid  by  the  Subsistence 
Department,  not  to  exceed  seventy-five  cents  a  day. 

1131.  The  ration  of  a  soldier  stationed  in  a  city,  with  no  opportunity 
of  messing,  will  be  commuted  at  si.\ty  cents.  ,The  rations  of  the,  non- 
commissioned and  regimentar;  staff,  when  they  have  no  opportunity  of 
anessing,  .<ind  of  soldiers  on  lurlungh,  or  Stationed  where  rations  can  not 
he  issued  in  kind,  may  be  eommuted  at  the  cost  or  value  of  the  ration  at 
the  post.  The  rations  of  ordnance  sergeants  may  be  commuted  at  thirty 
cents  per  ration. 


SUBSISTENCE   REGULATIONS. 


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i]32.  When  a  soldier  on  duty  lias  necessarily  paid  for  his  own  subsis- 
tence, he  may  bo  refunded  the  cost  of  the  ration.  When  more  than  the 
cost  of  the  ration  is  claimed,  the  account  must  be  submitted  to  the  Com- 
missary-General. 

EXTRA-DUTY  MEN. 

1133.  The  commanding  officer  will  detail  a  suitable  non-commissioned 
officer  or  soldier  for  extra  duty,  under  the  orders  of  the  commissary,  and 
to  be  exempt  from  ordinary  company  and  garrison  duty.  All  extra-duty 
men  employed  in  the  Commissariat  will  be  paid  the  regulated  allowance 
(see  Article  XXXIX.)  by  the  commissary,  if  not  paid  extra  pay  in  any 
other  department. 

1134.  Bariels,  boxes,  hides,  tallow,  &c.,  will  be  sold,  and  the  proceeds 
credited  in  the  quarterly  account  current. 

ACCOUNTS. 

1135.  The  following  are  the  accounts  and  returns  to  be  rendered  to  thtj 
Commissary-General : 

Monthly^ 

Return  of  provisions  and  forage  received  and  issued  in  the 
month,         -..-... 

Invoices  of  subsistence  stores  received,   *^ — 

Abstracts  of  issues  to  troops,  &c.  (see  paragraph  1116), 

Abstract  of  issues  to  hospital,  .... 

Abstract  of  extra  issues,        ..... 

Abstract  of  sales  to  officers,  .  .  -  . 

Abstract  of  pur^ases,  without  vouchers, "y*- 

Receipts  for  suilRtenco  transferred,      '    <l-- 

Summary  statement  of  money  received  and  expended  during 
the  month,  -  -  -  -  -  •  "/- 

Report  of  persons  and  articles  employed  and  hired,  -  y- 

^uartcrly. 
Account  current,        .  -  .  .  .  .^y_^ 

Abstract  of  all  purchases  of  provisions  and  forage  during 
the  quaiter,  ...... 

Abstract  of  all  expenditures  in  the  quarter,  except  fgr  pur- 
chase of  provisions,  and  forage  for  cattlo  (paragraph 
1102),         .  -  -  -  -  -  -     ^ 


Form 

1 

22 

2 

3 

4 

5 

8 

24 

G 

20 

Form   7 


12  SUBSISTENCE   REGULATIONS. 

Consolidated  abstract  of  sales  to  officers  during  the  quarter,  Form  10 
Distinct  abstracts  of  other  sales. 

Pay  roll, 'j/.  21 

Quarterly  return  of  all  property  in  the  department,  except 

provisions,  and  forage  for  cattle,    .            -            -            -  ^>^  "  12 

Estimate  of  funds  required  for  next  quarter,            -            -  ^j->  "  11 

113G.  The  abstracts  of  issues  will  show  the  corps  or  detachment. 
When  abstracts  require  more  than  one  sheet,  the  sheets  will  be  numbered 
in  series,  and  not  pasted  together;  the  totrtl  at  the  foot  of  each  carried  to 
the  head  of  the  next,  &c.,  &c. 

1137.  All  lists  of  subsistence  shall  run  in  this  order:  meat,  breadstuff, 
lice  and  beans,  cofVee,  sugar,  vinegar,  candles,  soap,  salt,  antiscorbutics, 
purchases  for  hospital,  forage  for  cattle. 

llSr^.   No  charge  for  printing  blanks,  as  forms,  will  be  allowed. 

1139.  A  book  will  be  kept  by  the  commissary  at  each  post,  in  which 
will  be  entered  the  monthly  returns  of  provisions  received  and  issued 
(Form  1 ).  It  will  show  from  what  the  purchases  have  been  made,  and 
whether  paid  for.  It  is  called  the  Commissary's  book,  and  aa  ill  not  bo 
removed  fro)n  the  post. 

1140.  AVhcu  any  ofiicer  in  the  Commissariat  is  relieved,  he  will  close 
his  property  accounts ;  but  money  accounts  will  be  kept  open  till  tho 
end  of  the  quarter,  unless  he  ceases  to  do  duty  in  the  department. 

1141.  Commissaries  of  subsistence  in  charge  of  principal  depots  will 
render  quarterly  statements  of  the  cost  and  qnality  of  the  ration,  in  all 
its  parts,  at  their  stations. 

1142.  Lieutenants,  acting  as  assistant  commissaries  of  subsistence, 
are  allowed  $  20  per  month  for  such  services,  to  b|fcaid  by  the  Pay 
Department,  on  accounts  certified  to  by  the  Conmiissary-Geiieral,  to  the 
effect  that  proper  returns  were  rendered  ibr  the  period  charged  ibr. 

1143.  A  Eegimental  or  Depot  Commissary  of  Subsistence  may  pur- 
chase, at  fu'st  cost  price,  of  the  captains  or  commanding  otiicers  of  com- 
panies, in  the  service  of  the  Confederate  States,  such  articles  or  parts  of 
the  ration  as  are  not  drawn,  nor  coiisumed.  Lut  this  ap})lies  only  to 
such  articles  as  were  actually  issued  and  not  consumed,  or  would  actually 
have  been  issued,  and  does  not  apply  to  such  parts  of  the  ration  as  the 
Commissary  does  not  habitually  have  on  hand  for  issue. 

1141.  The  accoiftits  for  such  purchases  will  be  made  in  duplicate 
(see  Form  No,  i9)i  and  the  articles  ivill  be  taken  up  by  the  Cou:imissavy 


SUBSISTENCE   REGULATIONS.  13 

on  his  monthly  return,  as  if  it  were  an  original  purchase.     The  money 
paid  to  the  captains  constitutes  a  company  fund. 

1146.  Estimates  for  funds  must  he  rendered  in  duplicate. 

1147.  In  order  to  establish  an  invariable  rule  for  ascertaining  the  net 
weight  of  beef  cattle  received  on  the  hoof,  the  following  mode  is  adopted, 
and  for  the  future,  in  all  cases  will  be  observed : 

1st.  When  practicable,  cattle  presented  for  acceptance  must  be  weighed 
upon  the  scales.  From  the  live  weiglit  of  a  steer,  thus  ascertained,  his 
net  weight  shall  be  determined  by  deducting  forty-five  per  centum,  when 
his  gross  weight  exceeds  thirteen  hundred  (1300)  pounds,  aud  fifty  per 
centum  when  it  is  less  than  that,  and  not  under  eight  hundred  (800) 
pounds. 

2d.  When  it  is  impracticable  to  weigh  upon  the  scales,  one  or  more 
average  steers  must  be  selected,  killed  and  dressed  in  the  usual  manner. 
The  average  net  Aveight  of  these  (necks  and  shanks  excluded)  will  bo 
accepted  as  the  average  net  weight  of  the  herd.  In  all  written  instru- 
ments  for  the  delivery  of  cattle  on  the  hoof,  tbe  manner  prescribed  above, 
for  ascertaining  net  weight,  must,  in  express  terms,  be  inserted.  In  ver- 
bal agreements,  it  must  be  understood  and  accepted  by  the  party  deliver- 
ing the  cattle.  Youchcrs  for  the  payment  of  cattle  will  state  the  manner 
pursued  in  determining  their  net  weight,  except  where  payment  has  been 
made  on  the  certificate  of  an  officer,  in  which  case  the  certificate  will 
state  the  mode  followed. 

3d.  With  a  view  to  the  prevention  of  losses,  now  so  frequently  occur- 
ring, from  overestimating  the  Aveight  of  cattle  received  on  the  hoof,  the 
serious  attention  of  officers  and  agents  serving  in  this  department  is  spe- 
cially called  to  tlic  exercise  of  greater  care  in  tlie  discharge  of  this  im- 
portant duty.     ^ 

1M3.  When  fr^sh  beef  can  be  provided,  it  will  be  issued  to  the  troops 
five  times  per  week.  When  the  circumstances  are  favorable,  and  it  can 
be  done  with  advantage  to  the  government,  the  subsistence  department 
will  keep  beef  cattle  to  supply  the  issues. 

1149.  The  following  issues  and  .substitutions  m.ay  be  made:  WTien, 
from  excessive  fatigue  or  exposure,  the  commanding  officer  may  deem  it 
necessary,  he  may  direct  the  issue  of  whi.skey  to  the  mlisted  n^en  of  hi.s 
command,  not  to  exceed  a  gill  per  man  for  each  day.  Tea  may  be  issued 
in  lieu  of  coffee,  at  the  rate  of  one  and  a  half  pounds  per  one  hundred 
rations.  Two  "issues"  per  week  of  "desiccated  vegetables"  may  be 
made  iu  lieu  of  "beans"  or  "rice."     Potatoes  and  onions,  when  issued, 


14  SUBSISTENCE    REGULATIONS. 

will  always  be  in  lieu  of  rice  or  beans.     Potatoes  at  the  rate  of  a  pound 
per  ration;  onions  at  the  rate  of  three  pecks  per  hundi-ed  rations. 

1150.  A  daily  ration  of  frcsh  vegetables  will  be  furnished  to  all  the 
troops  whenever  the  same  can  be  provided  at  reasonable  cost  and  charges 
to  the  government. 

1151.  Chaplajjis  in  the  army  are  allowed  the  same  rations  as  privates, 
to  be  issued  or  commuted  to  them  as  they  may  desire.  If  commuted, 
twenty -five  cents  per  ration  while  in  the  field,  and  sixty  cents  per  ration 
while  stationed  in  a  city,  may  be  allowed  them. 

121.  Four  women  will  be  allowed  to  each  company  as  washer-women, 
and  will  receive  one  ration  per  day  each. 

NOTES. 

1 .  Stores  longest  on  hand  will  be  issued  first. 

2.  Armorers,  carriage -makers,  and  blacksmiths,  of  the  Ordnance  De- 
partment, are  entitled  to  one  and  a  half  rations  per  day ;  all  other  enlisted 
men,  one  ration.  Laundresses,  one  ration.  No  hired  person  shall  draw 
more  than  one  ration. 

3.  One  ration  a  day  may  be  issued  to  any  person  employed  with  the 
army,  when  the  terms  of  his  engagement  require  it,  or  on  paying  the 
full  cost  of  the  ration  when  he  can  not  otherwise  procure  food. 

4.  Lamps  and  oil  to  light  a  fort  or  garrison  are  not  allowed  from  the 
Subsistence  Department. 

5.  In  purchasing  pork  for  the  southern  posts,  a  preference  will  be 
given  for  that  which  is  put  up  in  small  pieces,  say  from  foui-  to  six 
pounds  each,  and  not  very  fat. 

6.  As  soldiers  are  expected  to  preserve,  distribute,  and  cook  their  own 
subsistence,  the  hire  of  citizens  for  any  of  these  duties  is  not  allowed, 
except  in  extreme  cases.  The  expenses  of  bakeries  are  paid  from  the 
post  fund,  to  which  the  profits  accrue,  by  regulations  (see  Paragraph 
183),  such  as  -purchase  of  heps,  yeast,  furniture;  as  sieves,  cloths,  &c., 
and  the  hire  of  bakers.  Ocens  may  be  built  or  paid  for  by  the  Subsist- 
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SUBSISTENCE   REGULATIONS.  15 

7.  Mode  of  ascertaining  the  hospital  ration :  100  complete  rations  con- 
sist of,  say 

32  rations  of  fresh  heef.  is  40  lbs.  at  4  cents, 

68  "  pork,  is  5]  lbs.  at  6  cents, 

100  "  flour,  is  112  lbs.  at  2  cents,      - 

(  100  "  beans,  is  8  quarts  at  4  cents,                 32 
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(  100  "  rice,  is  10  lbs.  at  6  cents,                      60 

100  "  coffee,  is  6  lbs.  at  9  cents, 

100  "  sugar,  is  12  lbs.  at  8  cents, 

100  "  vinegar,  is  4  quarts  at  5  cents, 

100  "  candles,  is  l-i  lbs.  at  12  cents, 

100  "  soap,  is  4  lbs.  at  6  cents, 

100  "  salt,  is  2  quarts  at  3  cents, 

Cost  of  one  hundred  rjitious,  -     $  9  55 

or  9  cents  5  mills  per  ration. 


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Capt.  G.  T.  H„  A.  C.  S.,  mil.  service,     ■ 

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Ahstracl  of  Provisions  issued  from  the to  the day  of 186  — ,  to  men  in  Hospital  at  New  Orleans,  Louisiana,  under  ihe  charge  of  ■ 

C.  S.  Army,  by  Lieutenant  J.  T.  J.,  3d  Infantry,  A.  C.  S. 


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70          pounds  of  rice,  at  6  cents  per  pound, 
56          pounds  of  coft'ee,  at  9  cents  per  pound, 
193&        pounds  of  sugar,  at  8  cents  per  pound, 
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16i       quarts  of  salt,  at  3  cents  per  quart, 
12          gallons  of  molasses,  at  28  cents  per  g.allon,    - 

2  pairs  of  chickens,  at  87}  cents  per  pair,  .-    $  i     75 
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(Transfers  and  discharges  noticed 
under  this  head.) 

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1 

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Amount  of  rent  and  hire  during  tlie  month, 

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99 

Total  amount  due  and  unpaid. 

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FOKM   26. 

Articles  of  Agreement  made  and  mtpred  into  this  day 

of  ,  Anno  Domini  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  sixty- 

between  ,  an  officer  in  the  Confederate  Army,  of  the  ono 

part,  and  ,  of  the  county  of  ,  and  Stat© 

of  ,  of  the  other  part : 

This  asrecment  tcitncssHh,  That  the  said  ,  for  and  on 

behalf  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America,  and  the  said  ,  heirs, 

executors  and  administrators,  have  covenanted  and  agreed,  and  by  theso 
presenls  do  mutually  covenant  and  agree,  to  and  with  each  other,  as 
follows,  viz : 

First.    That  the  said  ,  heirs,  executors  and  administrators 

shall  supply,  or  cause  to  be  supplied  and  issued,  at  , 

all  the  rations,  to  consist  of  the  articles  herein  after  specified,  that 
shall  be  required  for  the  use  of  tlie  Confederate  States  recruits  sta- 
tioned at  the  place  aforesaid,  commencing  on  the  '  day 
of  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  sixty-  ,  and 
ending  on  the  day  of  ,  eighteen  hundred  and  , 
or  such  earlier  day  as  the  Commissary-Geui-ral  may  direct,  at  the  price 
of                cents                mills  for  each  complete  ration. 

Second.  That  the  ration  to  be  furnished  by  virtue  of  this  contract  shall 
consist  of  the  following  articles,  viz :  One  and  a  quaiter  pounds  of  fresh 
beef,  or  three-quarters  of  a  pound  of  salted  pork,  eighteen  ounces  of 
bread  or  flour,  and  at  the  rate  of  eight  quarts  of  beans  or  ten  pounds  of 
rice,  six  pounds  of  coffee,  twelve  pounds  of  sugar,  four  quarts  of  vinegar, 
one  and  a  half  pounds  of  tallow,  or  one  pound  of  sperm  candles,  four 
pounds  of  soap,  and  two  quarts  of  salt,  to  every  hundred  rations,  or  the 
contractor  shall  furnish  tlie  men  with  good  and  wholesome  board  and 
lodgings,  at  the  option  of  the  recruiting  officer;  and  thi!  recruiting  party 
shall  have  the  privilege  of  hanging  out  a  flag  from  the  place  of  reu- 
dezvous. 

Third.  That  fresh  beef  shall  be  issued  at  least  twice  in  each  week,  if 
required  by  the  commanding  officer. 

Fourth.  It  is  clearly  understood  that  the  provisions  stipulated  to  be 
furnished  and  delivered  under  this  contract  shall  bo  of  the  first  quality. 

Fijth.  Should  any  difficulty  arise  respecting  the  quality  of  the  pro- 
visions stipulated  to  be  delivered  under  this  contract,  thea  the  command- 


SUBSISTENCE   REGULATIONS.  39 

\ng  officer  is  to  ai^poiut  a  disinterested  person,  to  meet  one  of  the  same 
description  to  be  appointed  by  the  contractor.  These  two,  thus  appointed, 
will  have  power  to  decide  on  the  quality  of  the  provisions;  but  should 
they  disagree,  then  a  third  person  is  to  be  chosen  by  the  two  already  ap- 
pointed, the  whole  to  act  under  oath,  and  the  opinion  of  the  majority  to 
be  final  in  the  case. 
JVitness, 


Form  27. 

Articles  or  Agreement  made  this  day  of  ,  eighteen 

hundred  and  sixty.        ,  between  ,  Assistant  Commissary  of 

Subsistence  in  the  service  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America,  of  the 
one  part,  and  ,  of  ,  in  the  State  of  ,  of  the  other 

part : 

This  agreement  witncsseth,  That  the  said  ,  for  and  on  behalf  of 

the  Confederate  States  of  America,  and  the  said  ,  for  hin)Sfclf,  his 

heirs,  executors  and  administrators,  have  mutually  agreed,  and  by  these 
presents  do  mutually  ccvecaut  and  agree,  to  and  with  each  other,  in 
manner  following,  viz : 

First.     That  the  said  shall  deliver  at  /,v:s/<  bcrf.  of 

a  good  and  wholesome  quality,  in  quarters,  Avith  an  equal  proportion  of 
each  (necks  and  shanks  to  be  excluded),  in  such  quantities  as  may  be 
from  time  to  time  required  for  the  troops,  not  exceeding  thrice  in  each 
week,  on  such  days  as  shall  be  designated  by  the  Assistant  Commissary 
of  Subsistence. 

This  contract  to  be  in  force  for  months,  or  such  less  time  as 

the  Commissary-General  may  direct,  commencing  on  the        day  of 
eighteen  Imndred  and  sixty- 

Sccond.     The  said  shall  receive  cents  and  mills  per 

pound  for  every  pound  of  fresh  beef  delivered  and  accepted  under  this 
contract. 

Third.  Payment  shall  be  made  monthly  for  the  amount  of  fresh  beef 
furnished  under  this  contract;  but  in  the  event  of  the  Assistant  Commis- 
sary of  Subsistence  being  without  funds,  then  payment  to  be  made  as 
soon  aft<;r  as  funds  may  be  received  for  that  purpose. 

Fourth.  That  whenever  and  as  often  as  the  beef  specified  to  be  issued 
by  this  contract  shall,  in  the  opinion  of  the  commauding  ofiicer,  be  unfit 
for  issue,  or  of  a  quality  inferior  to  that  required  by  the  contract,  a  survey 


40  SriiStSTENCE   REGtXATIO^rS. 

shall  be  held  thereon  by  two  officers,  to  be  designated  by  the  command- 
ing officer ;  and  in  case  of  disagreement,  a  third  person  shall  be  chosen 
by  those  two  officers ;  the  three  thus  appointed  and  chosen  shall  have 
power  to  reject  such  parts  or  the  whole  of  the  fresk  hcff  as  to  them  ap- 
pear unfit  for  issue,  or  of  a  quality  inferior  to  that  contracted  for. 

Fifth.  That  in  case  of  failure  or  deficiency  in  the  quality  or  quantity 
of  the  fresh  hecf  stipulated  to  be  delivered,  then  the  Assistant  Commis- 
sary of  Subsistence  shall  have  power  to  supply  the  deficiency  by  pur- 
chase ;  and  the  said  will  be  charged  with  the  difference  of 
cost. 

In  witness  whereof,  the  undersigned  have  hereunto  placed  their  handa 
and  seals,  the  day  and  date  above  written. 
Witness, 


Form  28. 


Know  all  ?.ien  by  these  presents,  That  we,  and  , 

are  held  and  firmly  bound  to  the  Confederate  States  of  America,  in  the 
sum  of  dollars,  lawful  money  of  the  Confederate  States ;  for 

which  payment  well  and  truly  to  be  made,  .we  bind  ourselves,  and  each 
of  us,  our  and  each  of  our  heirs,  executors  and  administrators,  for  and  in 
the  whole,  jointly  and  severally,  firmly  by  these  presents. 

Sealed  with  our  seals — dated  the  day  of  ,  in  the  year 

of  our  Lord  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty- 

The  nature  of  this  obligation  is  such,  That  if  the  above  bounden  , 

heirs,  executors  and  administrators,  or  any  of  them,  shall  and  do  in  all 
things  well  and  truly  observe,  perform,  fulfill,  accomplish  and  keep,  all 
and  singular,  the  covenants,  conditions  and  agreements  whatsoever,  which, 
on  the  part  of  the  said  ,  heirs,  executors  or  administrators,  arc  or 

ought  to  be  observed,  performed,  fulfilled,  accomplished  and  kept,  com- 
prised or  mentioned  in  certain  articles  of  agreement  or  contract,  bearing 
date  ,  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  sixty-  ,  between 

and  the  said  ,  concerning  the  supply  and  delivery  of 

fresh  beef  to  the  troops  at  ,  or  rations  to  recruits  at  , 

according  to  the  true  intent  and  meaning  of  the  said  articles  of  agreement 
or  contract,  then  the  above  obligation  to  be  void;  otherwise  to  remain  in 
full  force  and  virtue. 
tVitnesses, 


Table  showing  the  quantity  in  Bulk  of  any  Number  of  Jtations,  from  1  to  100,000. 


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42 


SUBSISTEXCE    REGULATIONS. 


RATION  TABLE 

Of  Desiccated  Potatoes^  and  Desiccated  and  Mixed   Vegetables^ 
from  1   to  100,000. 


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DESICCATED  AND  MIXED  VEGETABLES. 

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SUBSISTENCE   REGULATIONS. 


43 


MISCELLANEOUS   ITEMS. 


A  box,  21  by  16  inches  square,  and  22  inches  deep, 
javrel,  or  10,752  cubic  inches. 

A  box,  16  by  16.8  inches  square,  and  8  inches  deep, 
bushel,  or  2150.4  cubic  inches. 

A  box,  8  by  8.4  inches  square,  and  8  inches  deep, 
peck,  or  537.6  cubic  inches. 

A  box,  7  by  4  inches  square,  and  4.8  inches  deep,  w 
gallon,  or  i:5J.4  cubic  inches. 

A  box,  4  by  4  inches  square,  and  4.2  inches  deep, 
quart,  or  67.2  cubic  inches. 
Out;  bushel  of  corn  weighs 
wheat     " 
"        "  rye         " 

"         "  buckwheat  weighs 

barley 

oats  " 

beans 

"         "  potatoes  " 

"         "  onions  " 

"         "  dried  peaches  " 

dried  apples    " 

salt 

Ten  gallons  pickled  onions    " 

"         "      sour-krout  " 


will  contain  one 

Avill  contain  one 

will  contain  one 

ill  contain  a  half 

will  contain  one 

56  pounds. 

60  " 

56  " 
52  " 
43  " 
40  '• 
60  •* 
60  " 

57  " 
33  " 
22  '• 
50  " 
83  " 
81  " 


CIRCULAR. 

1st.  Duplicate  originals  of  all  contracts  on  account  of  subsistence 
will  be  sent  to  this  office  through  the  principal  Commissary  of  Subsist- 
ence of  the  Military  Department  in  which  the  contract  is  made. 

The  place  of  residence  of  each  surety  to  the  bond  must  bo  named 
therein  with  particularity. 

Where  the  form  is  prescribed  it  will  be  followed;  in  all  cases  contracts 
must  be  drawn  up  and  executed  to  meet  the  requirements  of  the  law. 


44  SUBSISTENCE   REGULATIOXS. 

Every  contract,  ■whether  for  services  or  for  the  furnishing  of  supplies, 
which  contemplates  a  partial  performance,  from  time  to  time,  continuing 
until  the  whole  duty  is  performed,  or  the  whole  delivery  of  the  enumerated 
articles  is  effected,  must  provide  in  express  terms  for  its  earlier  termina- 
tion, if  the  Commissary-General  shall  so  direct. 


Regimental  and  Brigade  Commissaries  arc  not  allowed  to  hire  citizens 
as  clerks,  except  when  they  have  charge  of  permanent  depots.  Extra- 
duty  men  can  be  employed  for  this  service,  whose  pay  will  be  twenty- 
five  cents  per  day  in  addition  to  their  regular  pay. 


ARTICLE  XXXIX. 

882.  When  it  is  necessary  to  employ  the  army  at  work  on  fortifica- 
tions, in  surveys,  in  cutting  roads,  and  other  constant  labor  of  not  less 
than  ten  days,  the  non-commissioned  ofiicers  and  soldiers  so  employed 
are  enrolled  as  extra-duty  men,  and  are  allowed  twenty-five  cents  a  day 
when,  employed  as  laborers  and  teamsters,  and  forty  cents  a  day  when 
employed  as  mechanics,  at  all  stations  east  of  the  Rocky  mountains,  and 
thirty-five  and  fifty  cents  per  day,  respectively,  at  all  stations  west  of 
those  mountains. 

884.  Soldiers  will  not  be  employed  as  extra-duty  men  for  any  labor  in 
camp  or  garrison  which  can  properly  be  performed  by  fatigue  parties. 

885.  No  extra-duty  men,  except  those  required  for  the  ordinary  service 
of  the  Quartermaster,  Commissary,  and  Medical  Departments,  and  sad- 
dlers in  mounted  companies,  will  be  employed  without  previous  authority 
from  department  headquarters,  except  in  case  of  necessity,  which  shall 
be  promptly  reported  to  the  department  commander. 

ARTICLE  XL. 

PUBLIC  PROPERTY,  MON^Y,  AND  ACCOUNTS. 

890.  All  ofiicers  of  the  Pay,  Commissary,  and  Quartermaster's  Depart- 
ments, and  militaiy  store-keepers,  shall,  previous  to  their  entering  on  the 
duties  of  their  respective  offices,  give  good  and  sufficient  bonds  to  the 
Confederate  States  fully  to  account  for  all  moneys  and  public  property 
which  they  may  receive,  in  such  sums  as  the  Secretary  of  War  shall  di- 


fet^bSlSTENCE   UEGtULATlONS.  45 

i'ect;  and  the  officers  aforesaid  shall  renew  their  bonds  every  four  years, 
and  oftener  if  the  Secretary  of  War  shall  so  require,  and  ^Yhenever  they 
receive  a  new  commission  or  appoiutuieut. 

891.  The  sureties  to  the  bond  shall  be  bound  jointly  and  severally  for 
the  whole  amount  of  the  bond,  and  shall  satisfy  the  Secretary  of  War 
that  thoy  are  wortl4|oiutly  double  the  amount  of  the  bond,  by  the  affida- 
vit of  each  surety,  stating  that  he  isworth,  over  and  above  his  debts  and 
liabilities,  the  amount  of  the  bond  or  such  other  sum  as  he  may  specify, 
and  each  surety  shall  state  his  place  of  residence. 

895.  No  disbursing  officer  shall  accept,  or  receive,  or  transmit  to  tho 
Tn^isury,  to  he  allowed  in  his  favor,  any  receipt  or  voucher  from  a  cre- 
ditor of  the  Confederate  States  without  having  paid  to  such  creditor,  in 
such  funds  as  he  received  for  disbursement,  or  such  other  funds  as  he  is 
authorized  by  the  preceding  article  to  take  in  exchange,  the  full  amount 
specitied  in  such  receipt  or  voucher;  and  every  such  act  shall  be  deemed 
to  be  a  conversion  to  his  own  use  of  the  amount  specified  in  such  receipt 
or  voucher.  And  no  officer  in  the  military  service  charged  with  the  safe- 
keeping, transfer,  or  disbursement  of  public  money,  shall  convert  to  his 
own  use,  or  invest  in  any  kind  of  merchandize  or  property,  or  loan  with 
or  without  interest,  or  deposit  in  any  bank,  or  exchange  for  other  funds, 
except  as  allowed  in  the  preceding  article,  any  public  money  intrusted  to 
him  ;  and  every  such  act  shall  be  deemed  to  be  a  felony  and  an  embezzle- 
ment of  so  nmcli  money  as  may  be  so  taken,  converted,  invested,  used, 
loaned,  deposited,  or  exchanged. 

896.  Any  officer  who  shall  directly  or  indirectly  sell  or  dispose  of,  for 
a  premium,  any  Treasury  note,  draft,  warrant,  or  other  public  security  in 
his  hands  for  disbursement,  or  sell  or  dispose  of  the  proceeds  or  avails 
thereof  without  making  returns  of  such  premium  and  accounting  there- 
for by  charging  it  in  his  accounts  to  the  credit  of  the  Confederate  States, 
will  forthwith  be  dismissed  by  the  President. 

897.  If  any  disbursing  officer  shall  bet  at  cards  or  any  game  of  hazard, 
his  commanding  officer  shall  suspend  his  functions,  and  require  him  to 
turn  over  all  the  public  funds  in  his  keeping,  and  shall  immediately  re- 
port the  ca.sc  to  the  proper  bureau  of  the  War  Department. 

898.  All  officers  are  forbid  to  give  or  take  any  receipt  in  blank  for  pub- 
lic money  or  property;  but  in  all  cases  the  voucher  shall  be  made  out  in 
full,  and  the  true  date,  place,  and  exact  amount  of  money,  in  words,  shall 
be  wiitten  out  in  the  receipt  before  it  is  signed. 

899.  When  a  signatiuo  is  not  wriiten  by  tho  hand  of  tho  paitj,  it  must 
bo  witnessed. 


46  SUBSISTENCE   RfeGULATIO^^g. 

90J.  Xo  officer,  disbursing  or  directiag  the  disbursements  of  monej^ 
for  the  military  service,  shall  be  concerned,  directly  or  indirectly,  in  the 
purchase  or  sale,  for  commercial  purposes,  of  any  article  intended  for, 
making  a  pai't  of,  or  appertaining  to  the  department  of  the  public  service 
in  "which  he  is  engaged,  nor  shall  take  or  apply  to  his  own  use  any  gain 
or  emolument  for  negotiating  or  transacting  any  ^blic  business  oth^r 
than  what  is  or  may  be  allowed  by  law. 

902.  No  wagon-master  or  forage-master  shall  be  interested  or  concerned, 
directly  or  indirectly,  in  any  wagon  or  othci*  means  of  transport  employed 
by  the  Confederate  Slates,  nor  in  the  purchase  or  sale  of  any  property 
procured  for  or  belonging  to  the  Confederate  States,  e:&cept  Us  the  agent 
of  the  Confederate  States. 

903.  No  officer  or  agent  in  the  military  service  shall  piifchase  from  any 
other  person  in  the  military  service,  or  make  any  contract  with  any  such 
person  to  furnish  supplies  or  services,  or  make  any  purchase  or  contract 
in  which  such  person  shall  be  admitted  to  any  share  or  part,  or  to  any 
benefit  to  arise  therefrom. 

904.  No  person  in  the  military  service  whose  salary,  pay  or  emolu- 
ments is  or  are  fixed  b}^  law  or  regulations,  shall  receive  any  additional 
pay,  extra  alioAvance,  or  compensation  in  any  form  whatever,  for  the  dis- 
bursement of  public  money,  or  any  other  service  or  duty  whatsoever,  un- 
less the  same  shall  be  authorized  by  law,  and  explicitly  set  out  in  tha 
appropriation. 

905.  All  accounts  of  expenditure  shall  set  out  a  sufficient  explanation 
of  the  object,  necessity,  and  propriety  of  the  expenditure. 

906.  The  facts  on  Avhich  an  account  depends  must  be  stated  and 
Vouched  by  the  certificate  of  an  officer,  or  other  sufficient  evidence. 

907.  If  any  account  paid  on  the  certificate  of  an  officer  to  the  fiicts  is 
afterwards  disallowed  for  error  of  fact  in  the  certificate,  it  shall  pass  to 
the  credit  of  the  disbursing  officer,  and  be  charged  to  the  officer  who 
gave  the  certificate. 

908.  An  officer  shall  have  credit  for  an  expenditure  of  money  or  pro-^ 
perty  made  in  obedience  to  the  order  of  his  commanding  officer.  If  the 
expenditure  is  disallowed,  it  shall  be  charged  to  the  officer  who  ordered  it* 

909.  Disbursing  officers,  when  they  have  the  money,  shall  pay  cash, 
and  not  open  an  account.  Heads  of  bureaus  shall  take  care,  by  timely 
remittances,  to  obviate  the  necessity  of  any  purchase  on  credit. 

910.  When  a  disbursing  officer  is  relieved,  he  shall  certify  the  out- 
staudiog  debts  to  his  successor,  and  transmit  an  account  of  the  samo  to 


SUBSISTENCE   REGULATIONS.  47 

(he  head  of  the  bureau,  and  turn  over  liis  public  money  and  property  ap- 
pertHiniiig"  to  the  service  Iroiu  which  he  is  relieved  to  his  successor,  un- 
less otlnnwiso  ordered. 

911.  The  chief  of  each  military  bureau  of  the  War  Department  shali, 
nnder  thes  direction  of  the  Secretary  of  War,  regulate,  as  far  as  practica- 
ble, the  employment  of  hired  persons  required  for  the  administrative  ser- 
vice of  his  department. 

yi'2.  When  practicable,  persons  hired  in  the  military  service  shall  bo 
paid  at  the  end  of  the  calendar  month  and  when  discharged.  Separate 
pay-rolls  shall  be  made,  ibr  each  nionth. 

91.3.  When  a  hired  person  is  discharged,  and  not  paid,  a  certified  state- 
ment of  his  account  phall  be  given  him. 

914.  Propert}',  paid  for  or  not,  must  be  taken  Tjp  on  the  return,  and 
accounted  for  nvheu  received. 

915.  No  officer  has  authority  to  insure  public  property  or  money. 

91().  Disbursing  officers  are  not  authorized  to  settle  with  heirs,  execu- 
tors, or  administrators,  except  by  instructions  from  the  proper  bureau  of 
the  "War  Department  upon  accounts  duly  audited  and  certified  by  the 
proper  accounting  ofiicers  of  the  Treasury. 

917.  Public  horses,  mules,  oxen,  tools,  and  implements  shall  be 
branded  conspicuously  C.  S.  before  being  used  in  service,  and  all  other 
public  property  that  it  may  be  usr^ful  to  mark ;  and  all  jiublic  property 
having  the  brand  of  the  C.  S.  when  sold  or  condenmed,  shall  be  branded 
with  the  letter  C 

918.  No  public  property  shall  be  used,  nor  labor  hired  for  the  public 
be  employed,  for  any  private  use  whatsoever  not  authorized  by  the  regu- 
lations of  the  service. 

9 J 9.  When  public  property  becomes  damaged,  except  by  fair  wear  and 
tear,  the  officer  accountable  for  the  property  shall  report  the  case  to  the 
commanding  cflTicer,  who  shall  aj)p(nnt  a  board  of  survey  of  two  or  more 
ofiicers  to  examine  tlie  property  and  ascertain  the  cause  and  amount  of 
damage,  and  whether  by  any  fault  of  any  person  in  the  military  service, 
and  report  the  facts  and  their  opinion  to  him ;  which  report,  with  his 
opinion  thereon,  he  shall  transmit  to  the  cliief  of  the  department  to 
which  the  property  appertains,  and  give  a  copy  to  the  oftlcer  accountable 
for  the  property  and  to  the  person  chargeable  for  the  damage. 

920.  If  any  article  of  public  property  be  lost  or  damaged  by  neglect 
or  fault  of  any  officer  or  soldier,  he  shall  pay  the  value  of  such  article, 
or  aiaount  of  damage,  or  cost  of  repairs,  ia  either  caae,  at  such  rates  as  a 


4:8  SUBSISTENCE    REGULATIONS. 

board  of  survey,  with  the  approval  of  the  commanding  officer,  may  as- 
sess,  according  to  the  place  and  circumstances  of  the  loss  or  damage, 
and  be  proceeded  against  as  the  articles  of  war  provide,  if  he  demand  a 
trial  by  court-martial  or  the  circumstances  require  it. 

921.  Charges  against  a  soldier  shall  be  set  againsi  his  pay  on  the 
muster-roll.  Charges  against  an  officer  to  be  set  against  his  pay  shall  be 
promptly  reported  to  the  Secretary  of  War. 

922.  If  any  article  of  public  property  be  embezzled,  or  by  neglect  lost 
or  damaged,  by  any  person  hired  in  the  public  service,  the  value  or 
damage,  in  either  case,  at  such  rates  as  a  board  of  survey,  with  the  ap. 
proval  of  the  commanding  officer,  may  assess,  according  to  the  place 
and  circumstances  of  the  loss  or  damage,  shall  be  charged  to  him,  and 
set  against  any  pay  or  money  due  him. 

923.  Public  property  lost  or  destroyed  in  the  military  service  must  be 
accounted  for  by  affidavit,  or  the  certificate  of  a  commissioned  officer,  or 
other  satisfactory  evidence. 

924.  Affidavits  or  depo.sitious  may  be  taken  before  any  officer  in  the 
list,  as  follo^vs :  When  recourse  cau  not  be  had  to  any  before-named  on 
said  list,  which  fact  shall  be  certified  by  the  officer  offering  the  evidence: 
1st.  A  civil  magistrate  competent  to  administer  oaths;  2d.  A  judge  ad- 
vocate; 3d.  The  recorder  of  a  garrison  or  regimental  court-martial;  4th. 
The  Adjutant  of  a  regiment;  5th.   A  commissioned  officer. 

925.  When  military  stores  or  other  army  supplies  are  unsuitable  to  the 
service,  the  officer  in  charge  thereof  shall  report  the  case  to  the  command- 
ing officer,  who  shall  refer  the  report,  with  his  opinion  thereon,  to  the 
bureau  of  the  department  to  which  the  property  appertains,  for  the  order 
in  the  case  of  tlic  Secretary  of  War.  But  if,  from  the  nature  or  condition 
of  the  property  or  exigency  of  the  service,  it  be  necessary  to  act  without 
the  delay  of  such  refei-ence,  in  such  case  of  necessity  the  commanding 
officer  shall  appoint  a  board  of  survey,  composed  of  two  or  more  compe. 
tent  officers,  to  examine  the  propi-rty  and  report  to  him,  subject  to  his 
approval,  what  disposition  the  public  interest  requires  to  be  made  of  it; 
which  he  shall  cause  to  be  made,  and  report  the  case  to  the  proper  bureau 
of  the  War  Department,  for  the  information  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 
These  cases  of  necessity  arise  when  the  property  is  of  perishable  nature, 
and  can  not  be  kept,  or  when  the  expense  of  keeping  it  is  too  great  in 
proportion  to  its  value,  or  wlien  the  troops,  in  movement,  would  be  com- 
pelled to  abandon  it.  Horses  incurably  unfit  for  any  public  service,  may 
also  coQstitute  a  case  of  necessity,  but  shall  be  put  to  death  only  in  ca^e 
of  aa  iucarablo  wound  or  contagious  disorder. 


SUBSISTENCE   REGULATIONS.  49 

926.  When  military  stoics  or  other  army  supplies  are  reported  to  the 
War  Department  as  unsuitable  to  the  service,  a  proper  inspection  or  sur- 
vey of  them  shall  bo  made  by  an  Inspector-General,  or  such  suitable 
officer  or  officers  as  the  Secretary  of  War  may  appoint  for  that  purpose. 
Separate  inventories  of  the  stores,  according  to  the  disposition  to  be  made 
of  Ihem,  shall  accompany  the  inspection  report;  as  of  articles  to  be  re- 
paired, to  be  broken  up,  to  be  sold,  of  no  use  or  value,  and  to  be  dropped, 
&c.,  &c.  The  inspection  report  and  inventories  shall  show  the  exact 
condition  of  the  different  articles. 

927.  Military  stores  and  other  army  supplies  found  unsuitable  to  the 
public  service,  after  inspection  by  an  Inspector-General,  or  such  special 
inspection  as  may  have  been  directed  in  the  case  and  ordered  for  sale, 
shall  be  sold  for  cash  at  auction,  on  due  public  notice,  and  in  such 
market  as  the  public  interest  may  require.  The  officer  making-  the  sale 
will  bid  in  and  suspend  the  sale,  when,  in  his  opinion,  better  prices  may 
be  got.  Expenses  of  the  sale  will  be  paid  from  its  proceeds.  The 
auctioneer's  certified  account  of  the  sales  in  detail,  and  the  vouchers  for 
the  expenses  of  the  sale,  will  be  reported  to  the  chief  of  the  department 
to  which  the  property  belonged.  The  net  proceeds  will  be  ajiplied  as 
the  Secretary  •of  War  may  direct. 

928.  No  officer  making  returns  of  property  shall  drop  from  his  return 
any  public  property  as  Avorn  out  or  unserviceable  until  it  has  been  con- 
demned, after  proper  inspection,  and  ordered'to  be  so  dropped. 

929.  An  officer  issuing  stores  shall  deliver  or  transmit  to  the  receiving 
officer  an  exact  list  of  them  in  duplicate  invoices  (Form  22),  and  the 
receiving  officer  shall  return  him  duplicate  receipts  (Form  24). 

9130.  When  an  officer  to  whom  stores  are  Ibrwarded  has  reason  to 
suppose  them  miscarried,  he  shall  promptly  inform  the  issuing  and  for- 
warding officer,  and  the  bureau  of  the  department  to  which  the  property 
appertains. 

931.  When  stores  received  do  not  correspond  in  amount  or  quality 
with  the  invoice,  they  will  be  examined  by  a  board  of  survey,  and  their 
report  communicated  to  the  proper  bureau,  to  the  issuing  and  forwarding 
officer,  and  to  the  officer  autliorized  to  pay  the  transportation  account. 
Damages  recovered  from  the  carrier  or  other  party  liable,  will  be  refunded 
to  llie  proper  department. 

932.  On  the  death  of  any  officer  in  charge  of  public  properly  or 
money,  the  commanding  officer  shall  appoint  a  board  of  survey  to  take 
nu  inventory  of  the  same,  whicli  he  shall  forwanl  t<>  thi-  proper  bureau 

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50  SUBSISTENCE   REGULATIONS. 

of  the  War  Department,  and  he  shall  designate  an  officer  to  take  charge 
of  the  said  property  or  money  till  orders  in  the  case  are  received  from  the 
proper  authority. 

933.  When  an  officer  in  charge  of  public  property  is  removed  from 
the  care  of  it,  the  commanding  officer  shall  designate  an  officer  to  receive 
it,  or  take  charge  of  it  himself,  till  a  successor  be  regularly  appointed. 
Where  no  officer  can  remain  to  receive  it,  the  commanding  officer  will 
take  suitable  means  to  secui'e  it,  and  report  the  facts  to  the  proper 
authority. 

934.  Every  officer  having  public  money  to  account  for,  and  failing  to 
render  his  account  thereof  quarter-yearly,  with  the  vouchers  necessary  to 
its  correct  and  prompt  settlement,  within  three  months  after  the  expira- 
tion of  the  qitarter  if  resident  in  the  Confederate  States,  and  within  six 
months  if  resident  in  a  foreign  country,  will  be  promptly  dismissed  by 
the  President,  unless  he  shall  explain  the  default  to  the  satisfaction  of  the 
President. 

935.  Every  officer  intrusted  with  public  money  or  property  shall  ren- 
der all  prescribed  retiuns  and  accounts  to  the  bureau  of  the  department 
in  which  he  is  serving,  where  all  such  returns  and  accounts  shall  pass 
through  a  rigid  administrative  scrutiny  before  the  money  accounts  are 
transmitted  to  the  proper  offices  of  the  Treasury  Department  for  settle- 
ment. 

93G.  The  head  of  the  bureau  shall  cause  his  decision  on  each  account 
to  be  endorsed  on  it.  He  shall  bring  to  the  notice  of  the  Secretary  of 
War  all  accounts  and  matters  of  account  that  require  or  merit  it.  When 
an  accoimt  is  suspended  or  disallowed,  the  bureau  shall  notify  it  to  the 
officer,  that  he  may  have  early  opportunity  to  submit  explanations  or 
take  an  appeal  to  the  Secretary  of  War. 

937.  When  an  account  is  suspended  or  disallowed  in  the  proper  office 
of  the  Treasury  Department,  or  explanation  or  evidence  required  from 
the  officer,  it  shall  be  promptly  notified  to  him  by  the  head  of  the  military 
bureau.  And  all  vouchers,  evidence,  or  explanation  returned  by  him  to 
the  Treasury  Department  shall  pass  through  the  bureau. 

939.  All  purchases  and  contracts  for  supplies  or  services  for  the  army, 
except  personal  services,  when  the  public  exigences  do  not  require  the 
immediate  delivery  of  the  article  or  performance  of  the  service,  shall  be 
made  by  advertising  a  sufficient  time  previously  for  proposals  respecting 
the  same. 

940.  The  officer  advertising  for  proposals  shall,  when  the  intended 
contract  or  purchase  is  considerable,  transmit  forthwith  a  copy  of  the  ad- 


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vertisement  and  report  of  the  case  to  the  proper  bureau  of  the  War  De- 
partment. 

941.  Contracts  Avill  be  made  with  the  lowest  responsible  bidder,  and 
purchases  from  the  lowest  bidder  who  produces  the  proper  article.  But 
when  such  lowest  bids  are  unreasonable,  they  will  be  rejected,  and  bids 
ag-ain  invited  by  public  notice ;  and  all  bids  and  advertisements  shall  be 
sent  to  the  bureau. 

942.  When  sealed  bids  are  required,  the  time  of  opening  them  shall 
be  specified,  and  bidders  have  privilege  to  be  present  at  the  opening. 

943.  When  immediate  delivery  or  performance  is  required  by  the  pub- 
lic exigency,  the  article  or  service  required  may  be  procured  by  open  pur- 
chase or  contract  at  the  places,  and  in  the  mode  in  which  such  articles 
are  usually  bought  and  sold,  or  such  services  engaged,  between  in- 
dividuals. 

944.  Contracts  shall  be  made  in  quadruplicate ;  one  to  be  kept  by  the 
officer,  one  by  the  contractor,  and  two  to  be  sent  to  the  military  bureau, 
one  of  which  for  the  office  of  the  Second  Comptroller  of  the  Treasury. 

945.  The  contractor  shall  give  bond,  with  good  and  sufficient  security, 
for  the  tnie  and  faithful  performance  of  his  contract,  and  each  surety 
shall  state  his  place  of  residence. 

946.  Ah  express  condition  shall  be  inserted  in  contracts  that  no  mem- 
ber of  Congress  shall  be  admitted  to  any  share  or  part  therein,  or  any 
benefit  to  arise  therefrom. 

947.  No  contract  shall  be  made  except  under  a  law  authorizing  it,  or 
an  appropriation  adequate  to  its  fulfillment,  except  contracts  by  the  Secre- 
tary of  War  for  the  subsistence  or  clothing  of  the  army,  or  the  Quarter- 
master's Department, 

948.  It  is  the  duty  of  every  commanding  officer  to  enforce  a  rigid 
economy  in  the  public  expenses. 

949.  The  commander  of  a  geographical  district  or  department  shall 
require  abstracts  to  be  rendered  to  him,  at  least  once  in  each  quarter,  by 
every  officer  under  his  orders  who  is  charged  with  the  care  of  public  pro- 
perty or  the  disbursement  of  public  money,  showing  all  property  received, 
issued  and  expended  by  the  officer  rendering  the  account,  and  tho  pro- 
perty remaining  on  hand,  and  all  moneys  received,  paid  or  contracted  to 
be  paid  1»y  him,  and  the  balances  remaining  in  his  hands;  and  where 
such  officer  is  serving  under  any  intermediate  commander,  as  of  the  post, 
regiment,  &c.,  the  abstracts  shall  be  revised  by  such  commander;  and 
both  the  accounting  officer  and  the  commanding  officer  shall  accompany 


52  SUBSISTENCE   REGULATIONS. 

the  abstracts  with  full  explanations  of  every  circumstance  that  may  be 
necessary  to  a  complete  understanding,  by  the  commander  of  the  depart- 
ment, of  all  the  items  on  the  abstracts.  These  abstracts,  where  the  ac- 
counting officer  is  serving  in  more  than  one  staff  department,  will  be 
made  separately  for  each. 

950.  The  commander  of  the  department  shall  promptly  coiTect  all  irre- 
gularities and  extravagances  which  he  may  discover.  He  shall  also  for- 
ward, as  soon  as  practicable,  the  money  abstracts  to  the  bureau  of  the 
War  Department  to  which  the  accounts  appertain,  with  such  remarks  as 
may  be  necessary  to  explain  his  opinions  and  action  thereon. 

951 .  All  estimates  for  supplies  of  property  or  money  for  the  public  ser- 
vice within  a  department  shall  be  forwarded  thi-ougli  the  commander  of 
the  department,  and  carefully  revised  by  him.  And  all  such  estimates 
shall  go  through  the  immediate  commander,  if  such  there  be,  of  the  offi- 
cer rendering  the  estimate,  as  of  the  post  or  regiment,  who  shall  be  re- 
quired by  the  department  commander  to  revise  the  estimates  for  the  ser- 
vice of  his  own  command. 

952.  The  administrative  control  exercised  by  department  commanders 
shall,  when  troops  are  in  the  field,  devolve  on  the  commanders  of  divi- 
sions :  or,  when  the  command  is  less  than  a  division,  on  the  commander 
of  the  whole. 


Art.  36.  Any  commissioned  officer,  storekeeper,  or  commissary,  who 
shall  be  convicted  at  a  general  court  martial  of  having  sold,  without  a 
proper  order  for  that  purpose,  embezzled,  misapplied,  or  wilfully  or 
through  neglect,  suffered  any  of  the  provisions,  forage,  arms,  clotliing, 
ammunition,  or  other  military  stores  belonging  to  the  Confederate  States 
to  be  spoiled  or  damaged,  shall,  at  his  own  expense,  make  good  the  loss 
or  damage,  and  shall,  moreover,  forfeit  all  his  pay,  and  be  dismissed  from 
the  service. 


ARTICLE  XXXIV. 

ORDERS  AND  CORRESPONDENCE. 

437.  In  signing  an  official  communication,  the  writer  shall  annex  to 
his  name  his  rank  and  corps.  When  he  writes  by  order,  he  shall  state 
by  whose  order.  All  communications  requiring  ausWws,  must  indicate 
the  post  office  to  which  they  should  l^e  sent, 


SUBSISTENCE   REGULATIONS.  53 

438.  All  communications,  except  rolls  and  stated  returns,  and  accounts, 
are  to  be  passed  through  the  intermediate  commanders.  The  same  nile 
governs  in  verbal  applications.  Communications  from  officers  of  the 
staff  and  administrative  service,  to  their  own  chiefs,  do  not  pass  through 
the  military  commanders  .under  whom  they  serve,  except  estimates  for 
funds  or  supplies. 

440.  Rolls  and  returas  will  be  accompanied  by  a  letter  of  transmittal, 
enumerating  them  and  referring  to  no  other  subject. 

441.  Generally,  officers  Avho  forward  communications,  endorse  on  them 
their  remarks  or  opinion,  without  other  letters  of  transmittal. 

442.  Official  letters  should  generally  refer  to  one  matter  only.  In 
regard  to  an  enlisted  man,  the  company  and  regiment  must  be  stated. 

443.  Letters  on  letter  paper  will  be  folded  in  three  folds,  parallel  with 
the  writing. 

444.  All  communications  on  public  service  are  to  be  marked  on  the 
cover  "official  hzisincss;^^  and  to  receive  attention,  must  conform  to  the 
requirements  of  paragraph  438. 


Officers  in  addressing  their  communications  from  "  Camps  ^''  and 
**  Stations,^^  will  name  the  post-office  nearest  to  said  camps  and  stations : 
for  want  of  this  necessary  information,  many  letters  remain  unanswered. 
The  particular  post,  town  and  State,  should  in  all  cases  be  given. 


54  SUBSISTENCE   REGULATIONS. 

WAR  DEPARTMENT, 

Adjutant  and  Inspector  General's  Office, 

Richmond,  March  10,  1862. 
GENERAL  ORDERS, 
No.  12. 

The  following  Order  is  published  for  the  instruction  and  guidance  of 
Officers  of  the  Army : 

I.  All  Officers  receiving  provisions  from  Officers  of  the  Commissary 
Depai^tment,  will  state,  on  the  back  of  the  return,  the  amount  of  each 
article  of  provisions  actually  received  on  that  retui'n;  and  Commissaries 
will  make  out  their  "Abstracts  of  /sswes,"  in  accordance  with  such 
receipts. 

II.  Commanding  Officers,  whose  duty  it  may  be  to  examine  the  Ab- 
stracts of  Issues  of  the  Commissaries  of  their  command,  will  reject  all 
"Returns"  for  issues  (made  after  the  promulgation  of  this  order  to  their 
respective  commands),  which  do  not  show  the  amounts  actually  issued, 
by  the  statement  of  the  receiving  officer  to  that  effect,  certifying  that  the 
Abstracts  are  in  accordance  with  the  Issues  actually  made. 

III.  All  Disbursing  Officers  will  comply  strictly  "with  the  requirements 
of  the  Regulations  of  their  Departments,  calling  for  the  rendition  of  their 
monthly  returns  five  days  after  the  expiration  of  each  mouth;  and  of 
quarter-yearly  accounts,  twenty  days  after  the  expiration  of  each  quarter; 
and  where  failing  within  three  months  after  the  expiration  of  the  quarter 
to  make  the  proper  returns,  officers  so  failing  shall  then  be  dropped  from 
the  Rolls  of  the  Army.  The  onus  of  explaining  such  default  to  the  satis- 
faction of  the  President,  with  the  view  to  restoration,  shall  in  all  cases 
rest  entirely  upon  the  party  who  may  be  so  dropped. 

IV.  Commissaries  and  Acting  Commissaries  of  Subsistence  of  Regi-. 
ments  and  Battalions  will,  whenever  possible,  draw  provisions  on  Returns 
according  to  Forms  No.  13  and  14  of  the  Subsistence  Regulations.  Com- 
missaries Avho  draw  stores  in  bulk,  can  alone  make  sales  to  officers. 

Monthly  returns  are  to  be  rendered  at  the  end  of  each  month,, and 
quarterly  returns  at  the  end  of  each  quarter,  regardless  of  the  time  the 
officer  commences  service.  The  quarters  end  31st  March,  30th  June,  30th 
September,  and  31st  December. 

By  order  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

S.  COOPER, 
AdJtUant  and  Inspector  General. 


